Hi, this was a nice one.

Yeah, this is great.

Made me feel good about romance novels.

So today we are recording a special episode. Twin sisters and the Fated Makes

Listener, Kate and Kara, won the romance for Haiti auction, which was last fall, I guess, late last fall.

A million years ago.

And I know, I was like, we're actually,

this is only three or four months later,

and we're recording it, go us.

And we went back and forth with them about possible options and then they came up with a really fun idea which is to talk about the role of the breaking case of emergency romance

and some banter and talk about like which ones we have

on our lists.

And I think this will be a really fun episode.

So welcome to Fatedmates everyone. Are you going to

introduce yourself or no you go first? Okay I'm Sarah McLean I read romance novels and I write them and I'm Jennifer Procop a romance

reader and editor and this was really a fun exercise for me because I realized that I have a number of breaking case of

emergency books that I probably will never break in case of emergency.

Well, you know, let's talk about what it is first because I mean obviously if you, maybe you have or haven't heard it.

If you just listen but aren't on social media, you might not be aware with this phrase, but you know I think you can all figure it out. But it's those books that you want to read, probably you own, but for whatever reason they are just waiting on the shelf in case in case you

yeah but like here's the thing here's the truth you guys we live in fraught

uncertain times yeah and the reality is that there are, you never know.

You never know when you're going to get to a point where you have no choice but to reach

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